The New York Post is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The Post also operates three online sites, NYPost.com, PageSix.com, a gossip site, and Decider.com, an entertainment site.
The New York Post was founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father who George Washington appointed as the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury.
Alexander Hamilton appointed William Coleman as the newspaper's first editor in 1801; Coleman served in that capacity until his death in 1829.
William Cullen Bryant, the Post's most notable 19th-century editor
A New York City Subway passenger reading the New York Post in April 1974
Tabloid (newspaper format)
A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet. There is no standard size for this newspaper format.
British tabloids in 2011
Tabloid products of the late 1880s
"A photographer's photographer" quote by First Lady Florence Harding, who stated the Edward Jackson's photograph of her was "the best photo ever taken." The photo ran on the entire front page of the February 5, 1921 edition of the New York Daily News.